What does it cost?
$200 per visit, paid at the appointment. No insurance billed, no surprise statement later — and far less than a single week of using costs most patients.
Fayetteville, Arkansas · In-person care
Suboxone treatment from a doctor who has been where you are.
Dr. Robert Tomlinson treats every patient himself — no rotating staff, no lecture, no answering service. A flat $200 per visit, no insurance needed, and he answers his own phone around the clock. If you cannot wait until Monday, you do not have to.
One phone call is all it takes to start. Ask anything — you are not committing to treatment by calling.
- 4.7 ★ 91 Google reviews
- $200 flat per visit
- 24/7 he answers the phone himself
- Confidential 42 CFR Part 2
Will anyone find out?
No. Substance use treatment records carry two layers of federal protection — HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2. We do not disclose that you are a patient.
Who will I see?
Dr. Tomlinson. Every visit. He is in recovery himself, so you will not be talked down to.
Can I be seen tonight?
Yes. The phone rings to Dr. Tomlinson at any hour, and he will open the clinic for a patient who cannot wait until morning. Withdrawal keeps no office hours, so neither does he.
Availability
Open 24 hours. Not an answering service — him.
Most clinics close at four and forward the line to a voicemail box. When you call 479-856-1505 at 2 a.m., on a Sunday, on Thanksgiving, Dr. Tomlinson picks up. And if what you are going through cannot wait until the morning, he will drive in and see you.
- Scheduled visits — $200. Days, evenings, weekends, whatever fits your work and your family.
- Unscheduled, come-in-now visits — $300. The extra $100 is what makes the middle of the night possible: one physician leaving his home and opening a clinic for one patient. No clinic in Northwest Arkansas does this for less, because almost none of them do it at all.
- No triage, no callback queue, no chatbot. One number, one doctor, every time.
- And it is a fraction of the emergency room. A $300 visit at three in the morning against a nonfatal overdose ER visit that averages just under $2,900 — about $11,700 if you are admitted, roughly $20,500 with an ICU night. The ER stabilizes you and sends you home still addicted. He treats the thing that put you there.
In a life-threatening emergency call 911. For suicidal thoughts, call or text 988.
- Weekday morningsAnswered
- Weekday eveningsAnswered
- Saturday and SundayAnswered
- HolidaysAnswered
- 2 a.m.Answered
The part nobody explains
What actually happens when you walk in
Most people put off the call because they do not know what they are agreeing to. Here it is, start to finish.
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You call, and we talk honestly
What you are using, how much, how long, and when you last used. That last answer matters most — it determines when it is safe to take your first dose.
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You come in already in early withdrawal
This is not cruelty — it is how buprenorphine works. Starting too early can trigger precipitated withdrawal. We tell you exactly how long to wait for what you have been using, including fentanyl.
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Evaluation and your first dose
History, exam, and a treatment plan built for your life — then your prescription. Most people feel the withdrawal lift the same day.
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Follow-up roughly every 28 days
Refills, adjustments, and a physician who remembers your name and your story. Stable patients settle into a simple monthly rhythm.
Not sure how long to wait before your first dose? That is the single most common question we get — and the fastest to answer on the phone.
Ask us nowWho this clinic is for
If any of this is your situation, you are in the right place
Prescription opioids
Oxycodone, hydrocodone, Percocet, morphine — whether it started with a surgery or a script that never stopped.
Heroin & fentanyl
Fentanyl changes the timing of a safe Suboxone start. We have walked many patients through that transition carefully.
Coming off methadone
Tired of the daily clinic line? There is a structured way to move from methadone to buprenorphine without a crash.
Kratom & 7-OH
Sold legally at gas stations, and genuinely addictive. Kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine withdrawal is real, and it is treatable.
Relapse after treatment
You have done rehab, or Suboxone, before. Starting again is not failure — it is data about what your plan was missing.
A family that is scared
Parents and partners call here too. We will tell you what you can realistically do next, even if the person is not ready.
Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) is an FDA-approved medication for opioid use disorder. Medication is one part of the plan — Dr. Tomlinson builds the rest around your work, family, and recovery supports.
Your doctor
Robert Tomlinson, M.D.
He was an orthopedic surgeon. He is also a recovering alcoholic who lost his career, spent time in prison, and rebuilt his life one day at a time. He has sat in the chair you are about to sit in.
That is why this clinic does not run like a mill. He treats every patient himself, remembers where you were last month, and knows exactly which excuse you are about to make — because he has made it.
- Doctor of Medicine — Tulane University School of Medicine
- Former orthopedic surgeon, now practicing addiction medicine
- In recovery himself — lived experience, not just training
- Writes the clinic's patient education on fentanyl, methadone transitions, and kratom
What patients say
4.7 out of 5, across 91 Google reviews
★★★★★“Dr. Tomlinson is an amazing doctor who knows more about addiction than anyone I know. He helped me get through my first 6 months of sobriety, advising me, giving such good advice. He was also a great mentor for me. I look up to him and have a deep respect for all the help he gave me. Not your average doctor. He gets us.”
Robert Wright · Google review
★★★★★“Dr Tomlinson is the best at what he does. He will help you through every step… I once was at the lowest point in my life never knowing where to turn, but since I have started this program with Dr Tomlinson my life has changed for the better and now I'm on the journey to the good life. I am really grateful for this program.”
Josh Ortiz · Google review
★★★★★“Dr Tomlinson saved my life, the recovery program works… it has all changed my nightmare of addiction into content of just being me without worrying where and when my next pill is coming. I can now think about the great things of life and all my wonderful blessings.”
Patricia Acher · Google review
★★★★★“Dr T has truly saved my life. I've struggled with addiction most of my life and would not be where I am today without the help of Dr T.”
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Cost & insurance
Two hundred dollars is the cheapest thing your addiction will ever ask of you.
Addiction is not a cheap habit. It bills you weekly in cash, and then it sends the real invoices: a DWI, a lawyer, a job, a marriage, a custody hearing, a bed in the county jail. Against that ledger, a flat $200 office visit is not the expensive part of your life. It is the line item that stops the others from arriving.
A scheduled visit
$200
per visit · paid at the appointment
- No insurance billed — no surprise statement later
- No membership, no intake fee, no financing contract
- Stable patients typically return about every 28 days
- Your medication is filled at your own pharmacy, at pharmacy pricing
- $300 if you need him to open the clinic outside scheduled hours — he will, and he tells you the price before you drive over
Ask about payment methods when you call.
Do the math on what you're spending now
Move the slider to roughly what a day of using costs you.
Per week$420
Per month$1,800
Per year$21,900
Illustration only — nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere.
What addiction actually charges
- One first-offense DWI in ArkansasCommonly five figures once attorney fees, fines, court costs, interlock, and insurance increases are counted
- One overdose in an emergency roomA nonfatal overdose ER visit averages just under $2,900; if you are admitted the average hospital cost is about $11,700, and an ICU stay about $20,500 — all before anyone treats the addiction itself source source
- One job lostWeeks of income, the benefits attached to it, and the reference you needed for the next one
- One divorce or custody fightTwo attorneys, a new household, and years of the arrangement you did not choose
- A year of usingDo the arithmetic above. For most patients it exceeds a full year of office visits several times over
- A year of treatment hereRoughly thirteen visits at $200, a physician who knows your name, and a life you can plan around
What the fee is really buying
It buys a physician's undivided attention instead of a number in a queue. It buys continuity — the same doctor, every visit, who remembers what you were fighting last month. And it buys privacy: no insurer, no employer plan, and no payer file with your name in it.
It also buys something less obvious. Paying for your own care changes how you show up to it. People who have invested something arrive on time, take the medication as prescribed, and do the work between visits. That is not a theory — it is what a full waiting room of committed patients looks like.
Who this clinic is not for
If you are looking for someone to hand over a prescription while nothing else in your life changes, this is the wrong office. Dr. Tomlinson is not a dispensary, and he will tell you so in the first five minutes.
This is a treatment program. You will be asked to be honest, to keep your appointments, and to participate in your own recovery. In exchange you get a doctor who has done it himself and will not quit on you.
“I am not here to be your supplier. I am here to help you get your life back — and that only works if you want it.”
Getting here
Sunbridge Drive, Fayetteville — about a minute off College Ave
Address
102 E Sunbridge Dr, Suite 3
Fayetteville, AR 72703
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Hours
Open 24 hours, seven days a week. Dr. Tomlinson answers his own phone at any hour and schedules new patients around when they are actually ready — including tonight. Unscheduled after-hours visits are $300 instead of $200.
Please call before you drive over, at any hour, so he can meet you at the door instead of you waiting.
Phone
Email: info@suboxrecovery.com — please do not include medical details by email.
Patients travel to us from
Fayetteville · Springdale · Rogers · Bentonville · Farmington · Prairie Grove · Siloam Springs · Huntsville · West Fork · Elkins
Straight answers
Questions people ask before they call
Do I need insurance?
No. Visits are $200, paid at the appointment. Nothing is billed to insurance, so no insurer receives a record of your treatment.
Why don't you bill insurance?
Three reasons, and all three benefit the patient. Nothing about your treatment enters a payer's file. No prior authorization sits between you and your first dose. And the schedule stays open for patients who are here to get well, rather than filling up with pharmacy stops — which means when you call, there is a real appointment behind the phone.
If the fee is a genuine obstacle for you, call and say so. We will tell you honestly whether this program fits your situation, and point you toward other options in Northwest Arkansas if it does not.
Is $200 worth it?
Add up what a single week of using costs you, then compare it to one office visit a month. Now add what one DWI, one overdose, one lost job, or one custody hearing costs. For nearly every patient who walks in here, treatment is the cheapest line in the budget — and the only one that pays anything back.
Do you really answer the phone at night?
Yes. Not a service, not a nurse line — Dr. Tomlinson. He answers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and he will see a patient at any hour when waiting is not safe or not bearable. Withdrawal peaks at three in the morning as often as it does at three in the afternoon.
What does an after-hours visit cost?
A scheduled visit is $200. If you need to be seen outside scheduled hours — he comes in specifically for you — the visit is $300. You are told that before you leave the house, never after. Most patients never need it; the ones who do are usually the ones for whom one more night was not survivable.
Will my employer, family, or anyone else find out?
Substance use treatment records are protected by HIPAA and by 42 CFR Part 2, a stricter federal rule specific to addiction treatment. We do not confirm to anyone that you are a patient without your written permission.
I'm using fentanyl. Can I still start Suboxone?
Yes — but timing is everything. Fentanyl lingers in body tissue, so starting buprenorphine too soon can cause precipitated withdrawal. Call and we will tell you exactly how long to wait and what to expect.
How soon can I be seen?
Call 479-856-1505 and ask about today. Withdrawal is time-sensitive and we treat it that way.
How often will I have to come in?
After you are stable, roughly every 28 days. Early on, Dr. Tomlinson may want to see you sooner while your dose is being adjusted.
Isn't Suboxone just trading one addiction for another?
No. At a stable prescribed dose, buprenorphine occupies opioid receptors without the cycle of craving, hunting, and withdrawal. Addiction is compulsive use despite harm — treatment is the opposite of that. It is FDA-approved medical care, and it is the most evidence-supported treatment there is for opioid use disorder.
Can I keep working while in treatment?
Most patients do. Appointments are brief, medication is filled at your regular pharmacy, and there is no residential requirement.
What if I've relapsed before?
Then you already know more than most people who walk in here. Come back. Nobody in this clinic will shame you for it — least of all the doctor.
More questions and answers · what the first visit looks like · cost in full
From Dr. Tomlinson
Reading while you decide
Fentanyl
Starting Suboxone after fentanyl: why precipitated withdrawal scares people, and how we prevent it
Read the article MethadoneSwitching from methadone to Suboxone: what the transition actually involves
Read the article For familiesRecognizing opioid use disorder in someone you love: signs families here should know
Read the articleIf you'd rather not talk yet
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If this is an emergency
Call 911 for an overdose or medical emergency. For a mental health or suicidal crisis, call or text 988. For 24/7 free treatment referrals anywhere in the U.S., call SAMHSA at 1-800-662-4357.
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